The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - Oct 28 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,948 - Oct 28 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Bernard Crick dressed without right tie	CARRICKBEND
Careless host with pets that interrupt Springwatch?	STOPTHESHOW
Caught in rising black slimy fluid, die	SUCCUMB
Characters, by God, swapping sides in underworld	ZEDS
Clangers travel in space, primarily	GOOFS
Conspiracy covering up international test programme?	PILOT
Error suppressed by City Police	TYPO
Excluding huge vacuous items in copy	OSTRACISING
Face King John after exchange	LOOK
Facetiously opposed to calling someone when naked	AGIN
Fold up web address following fine	FURL
Foundation sacking bishop the way things stand	ASIS
Garland with certain fit that's worn casually	LEISURESUIT
Good call about, initially, stretching tight thong	GSTRING
Heads of select European judiciary meeting Polish assembly	SEJM
Hellish cat is an oddball	SATANIC
In which you'd sort out weighty issue?	FATCAMP
Make, say, woolly slip with hard string backing worn by elderly?	DROPASTITCH
Mess remains behind hotel	HASH
Monarch once quivering, angry with English knight	VIRGINQUEEN
Obvious Romeo uncovered nice ornamented belt	BALDRIC
Outspoken bank	BLUFF
Press part that's tender, offering pain relief?	AGONYCOLUMN
Quiet river or mere	PURE
Range of capital announced	ROAM
Rebellious group, perhaps half having run away	FACTION
Removed from article -- rotten flesh in stock	OFFTHESHELF
Reverend Barham losing medals near the house in Scotland	INBY
Stomach ill temper about British	BIBLE
Urban site regularly lying about despot	TSAR
Use up house-tax breaks, missing nothing	EXHAUST
Wolves et al. are able to identify hollow advantage	CANIDAE